Mr. Matsuoka, in Berlin Interview, Makes It Clear That Japan Will Fight If America Comes In Berlin, Mar. 29.
R. Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, yesterday afternoon Iaunched a verbal attack against the American press for belitting Japan's strength and Tighting determination in the China campaign. At a press conference, Mr. Matsuoka, explained that the Americans did not understand Japan nor the Japanese and therefore they underestimated Japanese tenacity.
American press attacks on Japan, he added, could not shake the belief of intelligent people outside the United States. can tell the world that Japan can fight for ten years and even longer in China without becoming fatigued, he said, "Americans err considerably when they entertain such views," he plied, when asked to comment on. American press reports that Japan swag exhausting her strength in the China campaign, Japan, Mr. Matsuoka added, would vecome'stronger and greater instead of weaker in the future because she was continuing to develop all its pro~ ductive energies despite the fact that, her dighting forees busily were en~ gaged on Chinese soil.
The Japanese Foreign Minister made it clear that Japan would ght if the United States entered the war, but added that he had not given up hope that the Pacific Ocean would become a sea of peace, "He pointed out that the new order could not be checked either in the Far East or Europe.
"For 30 years 1 have had a vision of a new order," he said, adding that Japan would fight with full dotermination to establish such an order.
Mr, Matsuoka declined to comment fon the subjects of his conversations with Chancellor Adolf Hitler. He also smilingly said that "I have a map in my head," when ashet whee ther they made use of the large maps which were Seen to have been Brought into the Chancellery while he and the Fuehrer were conferring.
The Japanese Foreign Minister declined to reply when asked whether a Russo-Japanese agreement. could be expected.
He did say, however, that he had noticed that there was continuous improvement in Russo-Japanese rela tions even when he left Tokyo, His talks in Moscow, he added, did not make him change this opinion, Ho declared that for years he had reamed of placing "Russo-Japanese relations on a' sounder basis—United Press.
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